so i'm working on an electronic ep. this is a genre i have very little rknowledge about to be completely honest, so i really couldn't tell you rwhether my music is garagestep or futuredub or electrojunglecore or rvampirelivingquarters or acidwave or what. you tell me. i'm just making rstuff that i think sounds cool. i'm going for something more human and remotional rather than really mechanical and precise and glitchy, so don't rexpect wubs or club beats or anything. anyway, here is a preview of rwhat i'm working on for anyone that's interested. constructive criticism is rwelcome, but try not to be an asshat because, like i said, this isn't a rgenre i'm overly familiar with. list is a couple of electronic albums i like.rhttp://soundcloud.com/auberginedreams00/song/s-O4s2e

thanks guys. i look forward to your review recspecs. just out of curiosity if anyone that knows a lot about this area of music would like to tell me what subgenre this falls under i would be interested to know.

well i'm glad it's not lakes bad. i'm not that experienced with production but i've been practicing a good amount and i've improved a lot from when i first started. this one is actually almost a year old but it's probably my favorite so i uploaded it first, i'm working on a new one right now so i'll probably share it when i'm finished. anyone want to tell me what parts work and what parts need improvement?

yeah i know deviant, i just asked that because i'm honestly curious as to what somebody knowledgeable about electronic music would label it as. i'm not gonna use it to define my own music or anything, i was just curious.

all i was trying to say is that i wasn't going for any particular style of electronic music, i was just using the tools at my disposal to make music that sounds good to me. that being said i would be interested to know what other people would consider it. that's all that was about.

I don't think most producers set out and go "okay, gonna make a dubstep tune" or "a drum & bass tune", but I don't think I've ever seen anyone make a tune and then ask others to see if they could tell him what it is, genre wise. That's just kinda strange

i know deviant i get what you're saying, like i said i was honestly just curious. i wasn't going to take the labels seriously, i was just interested in what some of the more "genre-nazi" type users would label it as. i was kind of half-joking with the question.

I liked the beginning but then all of a sudden the drums came in and the tempo changed and meh. It's pretty good though, and yeah the percussion is a bit annoying. Also you should have let it 'evolve' more, bringing more subtle changes in

@scoot that was really good, i liked the giles cory samples. i've only tried sampling like once so it's not something i'm very good at haha.

@anarchistfish i made this on a macbook pro with logic express 9 and an m-audio keyrig 49.

@asotamaki actually the levels are properly adjusted, i just added an overdrive plugin while mastering to give it a distorted effect, i thought it sounded cool tbh but i suppose i went a little bit overboard.

Hey man, gave this a listen and I definitely agree with Deviant about the percussion being a little annoying and taking the spotlight off the downtempo vibe the song was moving towards. Keep experimenting, though - what you made was cool, and I'd like to hear more from you.

That was pretty cool. I've been playing guitar and writing since I was in high school and I have an idea of what I'm going for but I usually just start playing and I just come up with whatever and I'm not concerned with what genre it sounds like.

thanks guys. drums are definitely my weak point, but i'll try to address the concerns about annoying and overly distorted drum samples in the future.

@sp i play guitar/vocals and write lyrics and prefer it to instrumental electronic music tbh. i'm trying to put a band together but i'm doing this in the meantime since it's pretty hard to make "real" music with just one guy, whereas it's much more conceivable for a single person to make an electronic track and have it sound decent.

@mindleviticus thanks that means a lot. i'll keep working on the percussion.

@trebor purity ring is pretty awesome, you should definitely check them out.

i just finished another song tonight, i'll probably share it tomorrow if anyone's interested. it's by far the most upbeat thing i've made or probably will make in the near future. i wanted to try something a little bit different so i hope it turned out okay.

@sp i get what you're saying but it's easier to get semi-professional sound quality on an electronic track than to self-produce a song with live instruments and such (at least for me it is). i paid like $150 for a decent audio interface, and even then it's difficult to get a good guitar tone. plus i don't play/own a drumset, and i don't know any good drummers at the moment. that's always the hardest part of putting a band together in my experience, finding a decent drummer.

never mind, apparently the new purity ring album doesn't actually officially come out for another week or two. i thought it was out already but that's probably just because it leaked so early. still, i wish there was a place to discuss it. i've been digging it a lot lately.

thanks for listening aids. percussion is definitely my weak point, i'll give you that. i uploaded another song to my soundcloud if you want to check it out. it's a pretty short track that's probably gonna serve as the intro for the ep. and i've got another 4 or so tracks that are close to being completed.

update: i've got 6 songs that are either done or close to being done, and a couple more that i'm
working on. this project is moving along a lot faster that i thought it would, which i'm happy about
because i'm excited for my all my sputbros to listen.

the ep is almost done, it's gonna be 7 songs. i've just got to tweak a few things and figure out what i'm gonna do about album art. i uploaded another song if anyone's interested, it's sort of a neoclassical baroque type of thing.

Some individual songs sound awesome, others are okay. I'll listen to it fully once I'm done with all
this other music I have. Tears is an awesome song I gotta say and so is Reflection. I bookmarked it.
Good work from what I hear. I may review it if you want?

yeah man i'd appreciate that. i definitely like some songs more than others, but i'm pretty happy with it as a whole. it's supposed to be a sort of instrumental concept album about undergoing some sort of personal/emotional struggle. the song names are sort of cues as to where you are in the story. obviously there are no lyrics so it's pretty open to interpretation.

"Yeah man, I get that emotional feeling. I'll keep you up to date of what I'll do with it! Did you make the album art yourself? It's really good."

thanks, emotional is definitely what i was going for. i've dealt with depression and ocd/tourettes for a long time so this album was sort of a therapy session for me in a way. and yeah, i made it myself more or less. i didn't draw the picture of the samurai (it's an old japanese woodblock print of a samurai before committing seppuku) but i designed the layout and everything else. i had to have my brother help with learn how to use photoshop though haha.

Nice man. Sorry about your depression; good to let it out in music. I'm actually in the midst of making an album myself. It has 4 songs, they're all spacey drone ambient and 3 of them are well over 10 minutes long =) I made it because it was exciting. In fact 3 of them are on my soundcloud (Yes, No, and I Guess (I had another track called Maybe, but I'm tweaking it because it sounds boring))

Here's my LP. I hope you like it (maybe review it? lol jk. I couldn't ask that of you ;P). I made it a while ago but I haven't showed it to anyone yet. May make a list with it in it? Also, I have decided that I will make a review of your EP in the upcoming week or so. I will need to listen to it more in order to get my full honest opinion about it.